Dock v. Latimer’s Empirical Analysis
729 F.2d 1287 · 1984
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Board of Pardons v. Allen (1987), 26 Conn. App. 132 - Vincenzo v. Warden (1991)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Baker v. McCollan · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Meachum v. Fano · Martinez v. California
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no constitutional or inherent right of a convicted person to be conditionally released before the expiration of a valid sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Penman v. Leavitt
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.